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Prosecutor: Mackinac Bridge was target (plan for cell phones)
The Saginaw News ^ | JUSTIN ENGEL08/12/06

Posted on 08/12/2006 3:11:03 PM PDT by SE Mom

Tuscola County prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges Saturday against three men who they say bought dozens of cell phones Friday in Caro in a globally coordinated plot involving the Mackinac Bridge.

They charged brothers Adham Abdelhamid Othman, 21, and Louai Abdelhamied Othman, 23, along with their cousin, Maruan Awad Muhareb, 18, with identical counts of collecting material to support terrorist acts and surveillance of a vulnerable target with intent to committ terrorism.

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To: Cage Rattler
To all

Bringing down the bridge is somewhat irrelevant!
If it was another proven terrorist act on the continental US soil and all it did was chip the paint that would be enough. Why?, because of the panic it would cause in the financial markets and the inherent costs of raising each alert level. If you added it up, it would probably be the equivalent of a Mackinac Bridge !
541 posted on 08/16/2006 2:12:11 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Niuhuru

I know, just as portrayed in "the Patriot", we will all stand together, especially south of the Mason Dixon...
I don't think they realize what they are really up against.
After all, living as they do, subjugated, majority "unarmed", they can't possibly understand that every man, woman, and child will stand up and "bear arms."
PS. You are a "lady" and one with a damn good point.


542 posted on 08/17/2006 1:00:58 PM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: fanfan

Does opening them on the counter and getting their crumbs on the counter count? :) Shocking how they can SELL the products from a cloven hoof. Hypocrites, but if it make money for terrorists, I guess its ok.


543 posted on 08/17/2006 1:03:24 PM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: mtbopfuyn

I have ol' timers, but I read it all here on Free Republic, and much later, in the SF Chronical, albeit, short.
Free Republic always scoops the media by days, if not weeks.
This took place probably end 2000 begining 2001.


544 posted on 08/17/2006 1:05:12 PM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: gaijin

When did the FBI start selling cell phones?


545 posted on 08/17/2006 1:08:10 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: mgstarr

Franklin was not dealing with suicidal maniacs.

Reagan retreated when they attacked the Marines.


546 posted on 08/17/2006 1:30:58 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: top 2 toe red

That guy was not Muslim. No evidence indicates he was a convert either or had any connection with terrorists. Rumour does not pass as evidence either.


547 posted on 08/17/2006 1:52:21 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

Acid? Hilarious. Do you have any idea of how much acid would be required to cut a 24" cable or how long it would take.

You are completely wrong about the ease of bringing down one of these bridges.


548 posted on 08/17/2006 2:18:32 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

This has been my biggest concern since Breslan.


549 posted on 08/17/2006 2:22:13 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

You do not have a clue if you believe GOP "purists" are the equivalent of the Party of Treason nutballs. They are not even close. One is committed to protecting this nation and the other to surrender. Disagreeing with the methods of the first in no way justices such a ridiculous statement.


550 posted on 08/17/2006 2:25:27 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: RunningWolf

You have to be kidding.


551 posted on 08/17/2006 2:26:06 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: melt

UGHly.


552 posted on 08/17/2006 2:30:17 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68; GarySpFc

Quite the contrary those who actually worked on the bridge have verified his contentions and shown yours to be nothing but fantasy.


553 posted on 08/17/2006 2:48:59 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
That was speculation on the Tom Clancy scale. But even Tom has pointed that life can trump fiction as it did on 9-11.

I was going to send you a detailed freep mail but I decide I don't know you well enough for that.

But I will just say this. They already have the willing suicide pilots, and the design construction of a komet derived vehicle is not as far into the improbable as you might think.

W.
554 posted on 08/17/2006 3:43:03 PM PDT by RunningWolf (2-1 Cav 1975)
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To: mgstarr

"...I highly doubt your state rates terribly high on the list of high profile targets.:

Ambassador Bridge and the tunnel are big targets. While I cannot provide numbers, the amount of trade between the US and CA over or under these two passages over the river is huge.

The auto industry is also very dependent on the them.

Huge economic blow.




555 posted on 08/17/2006 6:43:16 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: diogenes ghost

".....70,000 plus people at a U of M football game?" Try 110,000 plus.

Isn't that 110,000 number derived using Calypso Luey's million man math? ;-)


556 posted on 08/17/2006 6:47:43 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: no dems

Oh yeah it is; it's about 9 hours from Dearborn to Macinac Bridge.

By horse and buggy. I made it to Rochester Hills, (near Pontiac) in 3 hour 45 minutes. Of course, that was at speeds that might require jail time.


557 posted on 08/17/2006 6:49:25 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: GarySpFc

"withstood some incredible winds and severe snow and rain storms"

A few years back a Volkswagen was blown off the bridge.


558 posted on 08/17/2006 6:56:30 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: School of Rational Thought

We'll see. I doubt much will come of this. When the feds pick it up let me know.


559 posted on 08/17/2006 7:46:12 PM PDT by mgstarr
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To: RunningWolf

It takes governments years to get such things from design to operation. And major training programs are required. There are whole infrastructures already in existence necessary for such weapons systems to be developed.

This is nothing like 911 which essentially used the pre-existing strengths of Civilization against itself. Any future attacks will follow this pattern for the foreseeable future. It was an elegantly conceived endeavor costing little with staggering results.

There is little likelihood that the terror organizations are going to spend years and billions of dollars for a weapon which would be unlikely of achieving mass casualities. A plane of that size would not have a sufficiently large payload potential to justify it.


560 posted on 08/19/2006 8:50:27 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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